Master Vision_FINAL_4-2-18

Nine Year Plan
18 public art
1 – 3
1 – 3 years
• City: adopt Master Vision, rename CCC to Redwood City
Arts Commission (RWCAC).
• CCC: develop a prioritized action list, follow up meetings
with FC for detailed procedural suggestions, host 1 - 2
art summits per year, launch arts & culture website, begin
arts educational programs for CCC and the public.
• City with CCC: develop Utility Box and Mural Program
goals and vision including: detailed perimeters,
application process, aesthetic vision, open call artist
selection process with priority to Redwood City residents.
Define a specific end goal for a cohesive body of work
that takes the visitor experience beyond decoration.
Consider other mural program appro aches listed in
the Master Vision. Consider seeking input from other
successful mural art programs for advice. Finalize scope
and process.
• Turn Master Vision into interactive website.
• Create simple MV flipbook primarily of info graphics.
• Inaugurate Downtown Library atrium exhibition space
(artist preference to Redwood City residents and
programs).
• Initiate place-making discussions with the Redwood City
Port.
• Create quarterly changing exhibitions on the County
Small Claims Court Glass barriers (artist preference to
Redwood City residents and school programs).
• Adopt 1 percent for public art ordinance for residential
development.
3 – 6 years
• Develop and launch
temporary public art
exhibition for downtown and
throughout the City.
• Continue to increase annual
Art in Public Places Fund.
• Realize 1 – 2 projects
per year for the water
pump station sculptural
transformations, 101
billboard project, Saver’s
building, or consolidate funds
to commission an artist for
a sculptural intervention on
the Courthouse walkway, El
Camino Real or Woodside
Road underpasses.
3 - 6
6 - 9
• Research, plan and fundraise for
larger budget public art projects in
hopes of realizing 1 per year.
6 – 9 years
• Hire Director of Cultural Affairs to
oversee, run, and report to Director
of Parks, Recreation and Community
Services programs such as: public
art, cultural funding, grants, creative
place making, special events,
cultural facility management,
creative entrepreneurship, and the
creative economy.